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Dismantling the prison industry and ending the exploitation of those it targets.

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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · Apr 8

📖 OUT TODAY! The Prison Industry: How It Works and Who Profits is available at all major book retailers and many local bookstores across the U.S.

All proceeds from book sales go to support Worth Rises. Get your copy today and one for a friend!

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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · 1d

NaphCare is part of a cycle of private healthcare contractors cutting corners, settling preventable deaths, and then declaring bankruptcy. Publicly run carceral healthcare isn't perfect, but it doesn't put profits over people. www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

Spokane County settles with jail contractor over reimbursement related to wrongful death ruling

Spokane County will receive more than $731,000 as part of a settlement with the contractor that formerly provided medical services within county detention facilities.

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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · 7d

GEO Group’s chairman celebrates new ICE partnership that expands surveillance, putting detained immigrants at greater risk. For them it’s business, while lives are on the line. bit.ly/3IVSyWb

GEO Group wins two-year ICE contract for immigration monitoring services

The GEO Group Inc. (NYSE: GEO) announced that its subsidiary BI Incorporated received a contract from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for continued services under the Intensive Supervision Ap...

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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · 17d

“The 13th Amendment did not abolish slavery – it revised it and shrouded it in secrecy.” @biancatylek.bsky.social's new op-ed on forced prison labor exploiting $18.8B from incarcerated workers.
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Prison labour: the last stronghold of slavery in the US

Black Americans are disproportionately incarcerated and exploited with prison labour. It’s time to finish abolition

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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · 17d

We stand alongside 15,000 people, 100 orgs, and Congress, urging the FCC to protect prison calls. Every delay means money stolen from families. connectfamiliesnow.com/stopthedelay
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Advocates Urge FCC to Reverse Decision on Prison Phone Call Rates - Davis Vanguard

Nearly 15,000 individuals and over 100 organizations are urging the FCC to reinstate caps on prison phone rates after the agency suspended protections earlier this summer.

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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · 21d

Demand the FCC keep the rate caps they passed. Congress and over 14,000 families have called for fair prison phone rates — yet delays continue. It’s time to #StopTheDelay and lower the cost of staying connected. TAKE ACTION: connectfamiliesnow.com/stopthedelay

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FCC Plans October Vote to Revisit Prison Phone Rate Caps

Move sets up clash with nearly 100 advocacy groups, state AGs, and lawmakers backing protections.

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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · 21d

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Working to dismantle the prison industry and end the exploitation of those it touches.

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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · 21d

It should be considered outrageous that GeoGroup’s George Zoley pitches immigration detention and family separations to investors as a profit “opportunity” to boost the company’s stock. Yet this is seen as business as usual by far too many.
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The house that ICE built

Geo Group, America's largest for-profit jailer of immigrants, is preparing for a windfall under Trump. Its chairman is an immigrant himself.

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Diana Cariboni @dianacariboni.bsky.social · 22d

¿Y dónde hay trabajo forzoso? En las prisiones.
'La esclavitud no es solo la historia del sistema carcelario estadounidense. Es su presente', dice @biancatylek.bsky.social
Acá el artículo completo en @opendemocracy.net
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Prisiones: último bastión de la esclavitud en EEUU

Los afroestadounidenses son encarcelados de manera desproporcionada y explotados con trabajo penitenciario. Es hora de completar la abolición

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Diana Cariboni @dianacariboni.bsky.social · 22d

¿Esclavitud en EEUU en el siglo XXI?
La 13 Enmienda que abolió la esclavitud incluyó una cláusula de excepción que permitía la esclavitud 'como castigo por un delito'
Así se conservó el fundamento jurídico para el trabajo forzoso, cuenta @biancatylek.bsky.social en @opendemocracy.net 1/2

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Michael Linhorst @michaellinhorst.bsky.social · 22d

George Zoley, the eye-wateringly rich founder of America's biggest for-profit prison company, Geo Group, is an immigrant himself. So how has he become ICE's largest private jailer of other immigrants?

My latest for @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91396722/the...

The house that ICE built

Geo Group, America's largest for-profit jailer of immigrants, is preparing for a windfall under Trump. Its chairman is an immigrant himself.

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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · 29d

TAKE ACTION. Tell the FCC to #StopTheDelay: connectfamiliesnow.com/stopthedelay

Stop the FCC Delay — Connecting Families

Urge the FCC to implement new prison & jail telecom rules without delay—support families waiting for relief today.

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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · 29d

Despite being a billion-dollar corporation, Securus pressured the FCC to delay price caps so they can keep gouging families for their inflated ‘tech’ fees, exploiting primarily Black and brown families.
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Writing from my cell in the age of prison Wi-Fi

The expansion of tablets and prison Wi-Fi shows both the promise of connectivity and the cost of relying on billion-dollar contractors.

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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · 29d

URGENT! With the FCC poised to further delay or reverse caps on phone call rates for prisons and jails we need you to speak out! Tell the FCC to #stopthedelay connectfamiliesnow.com/stopthedelay

@famm.org @colorofchange.bsky.social @antirecidivism.bsky.social

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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · Sep 9

Learn more about how corporations’ greed and tech surveillance tools have a history of harm: worthrises.org/theprisonind...

Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · Sep 9

ICE’s 2M spyware contract with Paragon funds the direct attack on our rights. This tech allows the government to break into our phones and read our messages, calling it ‘security’. bit.ly/4gkiqr5

ICE Has Spyware Now

Plus: An AI chatbot system is linked to a widespread hack, details emerge of a US plan to plant a spy device in North Korea, your job’s security training isn’t working, and more.

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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · Sep 2

“Private prison needs more bodies to grow. Corporations have no place in any system that claims to be about justice,” @biancatylek.bsky.social on mass detention being treated as business. bit.ly/4g4qrQN

Trump’s Immigrant Gulags: A Bonanza For Private Prison Corporations

When it comes to for-profit, private corporate incarceration of immigrants, making lots of money is like drinking salt water, the more they drink, the thirstier they get. Roman proverbs say that the m...

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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · Aug 28

People are not data. Learn about this tech's harmful implications at: worthrises.com/prisonindustry

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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · Aug 28

Securus isn’t pioneering ‘justice’ solutions. Electronic monitoring is just surveillance, controlling people, racially profiling communities, and fueling mass incarceration.
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Securus Monitoring Showcases BLUtag® and VeriTracks® as Gold Standard in Community Corrections Technology at APPA's 50th Annual Conference

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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · Aug 27

This breakdown of the $170B increase in immigration spending to jail and cage people now rivals military budgets of entire countries. “We’re in a dark place,” says @biancatylek.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/45azkrj5

In data: Under Trump, immigration enforcement spending to explode | Context by TRF

More U.S. federal funds are to be spent on immigration enforcement and ICE as part of Trump's crackdown

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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · Aug 26

Calling electronic monitoring 18M immigrants a ‘market opportunity’ is deplorable. Catch @biancatylek.bsky.social on Bad Faith discuss the prison industry's role in immigration crackdowns.
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CRIME LIES Lead to CRACK DOWN in DC, For Profit Prisons Win (w/ Alex Karatkatsanis & Bianca Tylek)

YouTube video by Bad Faith

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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · Aug 22

Many are enduring deadly conditions when prison safety measures are deemed a financial ‘burden’, while profit-driven corporations advocate for ‘tough on crime’ policies to fill beds. tinyurl.com/3y73xw7v

Extreme heat in prisons brings more legal challenges, pressure on states • Ohio Capital Journal

Summer heat is bearing down on U.S. prisons, where temperatures in uncooled cells can climb well into the triple digits. While some states try to make the situation better, in other states efforts hav...

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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · Aug 22

Learn more about the billion dollar industry around prison construction in our new book The Prison Industry: worthrises.org/theprisonindustry

Worth Rises — The Prison Industry: How It Works and Who Profits

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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · Aug 22

Stop funding prison construction that profits corporations, leaves facilities abandoned, and drains public dollars long-term. We're working on ending the cycle by dismantling the prison industry. tinyurl.com/3nd955fu

The Good Things We Could Do With Our Closed Prisons

We could save billions by transforming these shuttered monuments to mass incarceration into something far more useful, humane and fiscally responsible. What the military did decades ago offers a prove...

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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · Aug 20

WIN OF THE DAY: At least there are some judges who still have a backbone. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed that private prison giant GEO Group cannot force or coerce detained immigrants to work for $1. It must pay $23Mn in backpay.

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GEO Group Denied Rehearing of $23.2 Million Wage Verdict (1)

A federal appeals court denied a private prison operator’s request to rehear its appeal of a $23.2 million jury verdict over violations of Washington state minimum wage law.

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Bianca Tylek @biancatylek.bsky.social · Aug 13

People are fighting back and we love to see it! Sure, they lost and this west TN town went forward with ICE and private prison contracts, but this energy is critical right now. FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT. We will win.
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West Tenn. town approves CoreCivic to run immigration detention facility after chaotic meeting • Tennessee Lookout

Officials in the small West Tennessee town of Mason on Tuesday approved a contract with private prison corporation CoreCivic to operate the former West Tennessee Detention Facility as an immigration d...

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